Abstract Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature.
Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) …

This article offers a vision for technology supported collaborative and discussion-based
learning at scale. It begins with historical work in the area of tutorial dialogue systems. It …

Dialog behavior is affected by power relations among the discourse participants. We show
that four different types of power relations (hierarchical power, situational power, influence …

In this paper, we present an automatic system to rank participants of an interaction in terms
of their relative power. We find several linguistic and structural features to be effective in …

In this paper we describe an application of a lightly supervised Role Identification Model
(RIM) to the analysis of coordination in Wikipedia talk page discussions. Our goal is to …

Participants in political discourse employ rhetorical strategies--such as hedging, attributions,
or denials--to display varying degrees of belief commitments to claims proposed by …

Word of epidemic is a very popular term in modern world which social media has affect
almost all people along all over the world. Modern World's social networks are very …

Understanding how social power structures affect the way we interact with one another is of
great interest to social scientists who want to answer fundamental questions about human …

In this paper we present a generative model entitled the Author Perspective Model for the
classification of deontic modality in event mentions. In the model modals, adverbials, and …

In this article, we present a novel approach towards the detection and modeling of complex
social phenomena in multiparty interactions, including leadership, influence, pursuit of …